Events

Upcoming Events:

4th National Farm to Cafeteria Conference: Going the Distance and then Shortening It

This event will take place on March 19-21, 2009 in Portland, OR. Save-the-date postcard (PDF download)

Past Events:

2008 Annual Conference:
Restoring Our Urban and Rural Communities with Healthy Food

This event took place on October 4-8, 2008 in Cherry Hill, NJ (near Philadelphia). Call for Proposals - Save-the-date postcard (PDF downloads)

Food Policy Council Regional Trainings

The Food Policy Council Program of the Community Food Security Coalition held three regional FPC training workshops in 2008:

• Thursday, Jan. 17 in Lousville, KY
  in conjunction with the Southern SAWG conference, Practical Tools and Solutions for Sustaining Family Farms
• Thursday, February 28 & Friday, February 29 in Milwaukee, WI
  in conjunction with the Urban Agriculture conference, Pollinating Our Future
• Monday, May 5 in Santa Fe, NM
  in conjunction with the Southwest Marketing Network Annual Conference

More information about the FPC trainings can be found on the FPC events page.

2007 Membership Meeting, November 11-12

CFSC hosted a two-day membership meeting in Jekyll Island, GA. The meeting focused on discussing future directions for the CFS movement and solicited member input on CFSC's programs and strategic plan.

2007 Field Guide to Evaluation Workshop

This event took place March 2007, New Orleans, LA.

Third National Farm to Cafeteria Conference - From Cafeterias to Capitol Hill

This event took place in March 2007 in Baltimore, MD. Watch videos from the conference on YouTube.com

2006 Annual Conference: Bridging Borders Toward Food Security

This event took place in October 2006 in Vancouver, Canada.

Conference Evaluation Results: over 300 conference participants completed our conference evaluation survey. Evaluation results:

• data summary of all multiple choice questions (pdf)
• coded qualitative results from open-ended questions (word document)

2005 Annual Conference - It's Homegrown: Cultivating the Roots of Real Change

This event took place in October 2005 in Atlanta, GA.

CFSC's Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts

Read about our hurricane relief and recovery efforts, including the Bring It On Home benefit concert to support farmers and food security efforts in the New Orleans region and Grow the Green, a seed giveaway sponsored by the New Orleans Food and Farm Network to help bring back green to New Orleans neighborhoods.

Second National Farm to Cafeteria Conference - Farms and Food Services in Partnership

This event took place in June 2005 in Gambier, Ohio.

2004 Annual Conference - Celebrating a Decade of Community Food Security

This event took place in October 2004 in Milwaukee, WI.

2003 Annual Conference - Growing the Movement: New Opportunities and Challenges for CFS

This event took place in November 2003 in Boston, MA.

2002 Annual Conference - Eating Locally, Thinking Globally

This event took place in November 2003 in Boston, MA.